The Sun. — London, England, 1864-12-30 00:00:00

CRYSTAL PALACE.-TO-MORROW.- LUXURIOUSLY WARM and DRY. See the New Pictures in Special Gallery. THE PALACE at NIGHT.--' 1 If this lighting up, and this alone, were shown as the Christmas attraction, it would - be worth a j Jurney to Norwood to see it. We cm only cordially recommend our readers to see it for themselves before the week is out." —Vide Newspapers. CR,YSTAL PALACE. —TO - MORROW. NJ SATURDAY CONCERT and AFTERNOON PRO- MttNADE.—Madame GRESI'S last and only appearance.— Admission, Half-a-Crown ; Children under Twelve, One Shit in,g; -reserved . stalls, at the Crystal P.alace, and at 6, Exeter Hall. Being very limited in number, they must be applied for at once. Doors open at Ten. Concert at Three. Afternoon Prome nade at half-past Four. NoTE. —"A more agreeable means of passing a winter afternoon can hardly be imagined thin is now provided every So turd y at the Crystal Palace." COMMODORE NUTT & MINNIE WARREN. ST. JAMES'S HALL, -Piccadilly.—THlS DAY and during the HOLIDAYS.—THREE GRAND LEVEES DAILY, at Eleven and Eight o'clOck. "Na ure's Smallest Edition of her choicest work"—a Bachelor and Belle of mAture age, not larger than Two cc.ts ! ! . . A t Eleven o'clock they appear in the identical WEDDING (*OiTUME worn by them at the Marriage of GIN. TOM. THUMB; and they . also perform Sirs, Duets, Dances, &,c., giving several Comic personstions, th an entire change of programme at each Levee. They will be drawn to and from St. James's Hall in their Lilliputian Carringe by four of the Smallest Ponies in the world, presented to them by General Tom Thumb; - - - - Box Office from 10 till 4 o'cloolr. Admission, is. and 2s. ; reserved seats, 3s. Chvldren half price to the 2s. and 3s. seats• al HE WORLD of WONDERS by the WIZARD - of the NORTH..-GREAT ATTRACT !ON for the HOLIDAYS, GREAT ST. JAMES'S HALL, every night at 8, Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday afternoons at 3. The Second-Sight by Misi Anderson, also tin Great Rope tying Mystery by Miss Lizzie Anderson and Mr. Sutton. - • -- Mimi Eldon, Is. ; balcony, 28. ; stalls, 3s. R. and Mrs. GERMAN REED, with Mr. JOHN PARRY. In THE RIVAL COMPOSERS, in which the Sisters Pry will appear, with THE BARD and HIS BIRTHDAY; and to °ono ode with MRS. ROSELE AT THE SEA,SIDE. By. Mr. John Parry. Every Evening (except Saturday) at Eight ; Saturday Afternoon, at Three. - -ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRA cloN, 14. Rwent- Tfree , . Unreserved seats, ls., 28. ; stalls, Es.; stall spring chairs, ss. .7 OPERA DI CAMERA, 'the SOLDIER'S LEGACY, by Maotarren, and TOO MANY COOKS, by Offenbach. Every TUE:DAY and T aURSDAY, at Three. THOXF O R D, 6, OXFORD STREET, W. The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). ORPFIEDI AUX ENFERS (Offenhach's brilliant Opera Comiquel, is achieving an unprecedented success. Vide, the Song : "King of Bceotia ;" " The Hymn to Bacchus ;" end the spirited "Hilliho " Chorus, by Eurydice, Diana, Cupid, and horns; the side-splitting "Couplets," by Minerva, Diana, Venus, Cupid, Pluto, and Chorus ; a d final Minuet and G4lop. Principal characters by Misses Russell, Fitz henry, Barrie, Tyrrell, and Walmsley ; Messrs. Greene and Lascellcs. Also, the new Cantata, KING CHRISTMAS, written by Litchfield fVfosely, Esq., and composed by Herr Meyer Lutz, expressly for this estaolishment. - - - Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. THE DESCENT OF MERCURY, by Mr. Jas. TaMAL LE MONSTRE CHARLIE, by M. SILVESTRE. Comedy, by Mr. WILLIAM RANDALL, Mr. GASTON MURRAY, LITTLE 808, and all the procurable Talent of the day. ANTERBURY HALL. C The Oxford and Canterbury Hall Company (limited). HODGE PODGE, the most extraordimry Christmas Entertainment in Lon don (inclul ng the whole strength of the establishment), should be seen to be apprtclated. The usual OperAtic Selections by Misses Russell, Barrie, Hays, Godden, &c. ; Mcssrs. Lascelles, Harland, Leaumont, Kimberley, &c. Musical Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans. Extra Comedy by Mr. and Mrs. Randal', Mr. Hilton, Stacey, Woodman, Little Bob, dm Every evening at 7 o'clock. ira 0Y A L CAMBRIDGE MUSIC HALL, Commercial-street, Shoreditch. (close to the Great Eastern Terminus'. Sole Proprietor, Mr. G. W. NUGENT. SPECIAL ATTRACTIONS UP TO CHRISTMAS. Operatic Selections, &o. Prima Donna, Miss ELLISON. The Comic strength of the Company includes ANNIE ADAMS, NELLY POWER, J. G. FORDE, WEST, GEO. LEY BOURNE, Mr. HERBERT, J. F. ALEXANDER and Family; LES FRERES CAVALLINI, the great Italian ( towns and Gymnasts, from the Cirque Napoleon, Paris, their first appearance in England. Permanent prices—Area, 4d. ; balcony, 6d. ; stalls, Is. Manager and Conductor, Mr. C. GRE VILLE. A RGYLL ROOMS, Great Windmill-street, Piccadilly. 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ME SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1864. a E FOR E YOU,I3F R att l er the ra F n j tomime A , aItTENZ-ISP' SUPPER how oxygen gas may be made in a common tobacco pipe, by putting into the bowl of the pipe a mixture of the chlorate of potass and peroxide of manganese, and heatirg it, after covering it over with clay, he proceeded to exhibit a number of brilliant experi• ments by the combustion of phosphorus, powdered charcoal, and other substances, in oxygen gas. The most remarkable experiment consisted in thrOw ing a blast of oxygen gas on to molten iron, when a cascade of resplendent stars of fire, of large - size, issued from the crucible, producing a very beautiful Effect. 'Dr. Frankland said that an ana lysis of the fireworks, for which the Japanese are celebrated, shows them t . o• consist of a mixture of 31 parts, by weight, of nitre, 11 of sulphur, and 1 of carbon, the composition being nearly similar to that of making " spur fire," which was at one time common in this country. He exhibited some Japa nese matches madA in that manlier, which threw out numbers of large . and brilliant sparks, and he greatly excited the juvenile portion of his audience by stating to them that inbia next lecture he should bring some of the matches to distribute amongst them. Several of the properties of hydrogen gas were next more particularly' noticed. Its levity, compared with air, was-illustrated by the inflation of a small balloon ; and the explosive power of the gas when mixed with oxygen was shown in a variety of experiments, in One of which Dr. Franke land inflated a number of small soap babbles with an explosive mixture of the &sex, sad ignited them on hie band, where they exploded with a loud re port. In the next lecture he will illustrate how coal was put together by Nature. Pembroke (district)—Sir J. Olve3 1 died, February 1861— Sir Hugh Owen Pembrokesh're—Lord Emlyn bacame Earl of Cawdor, January 1861—Mr G. Lort-Phi Hips Plymouth—Lord Valletort bi name Earl o f m ount _ Edg. cumbe, September 1861—Mr W r. Morrison Pontefract—Mr Overend re fined, January 1860—Mr Childers ; Mr Monckton ga WAS created Lr,rd Hough. ton in July, 1863—Major We 4 krhouso Preston—Mr Cross resigolad, March 1862—Sir T. G. Hesketh Radnor—Sir G. C. Lewis dip' 1, April 1863 —Mr R. Green Pi ice. Reading—Sir 11. S. 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No exr.ense is incurred in effecting a new Insurance be yond the pnym?nt of the Annual Premium and Duty, when tie Premium amounts to ss. Claims liberally and promptly settled. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that FIRE Policies which expire at Christmas must be renewed within fifteen days at this Office, or with Mr. SAMS, No. 1, St. James's — street, corner of Pall-Mall; or with the Company's Agents throughout the Kingdom, otherwise they become void. Application for Prospectuses and Agencies to be made to Lbe L:ecretary. Christmas Lectures at the Royal Institution. Yesterday afternoon Dr Frankland delivered the second of his Christmas course of lectures, " On the chemistry of coal." Reverting to the properties of carbonic acid, which formed the subject of the previous lecture, and to its power of extinguishing flame, he mentioned, as a striking instance of that property, that a coal mine which had been burning for upwards of 30 years was extinguished by Mr Goldvvorthy H. Gurney in the course of a month by directing a current of carbonic acid through the passages of the mine. Though carbonic acid does not support combustion under ordinary circum stances, it supports the combustion of potassium, which substance, when ignited in a glass tube filed with carbonic acid, continued to burn; and a quantity of carbon arising from the decomposition of the carbonic acid was deposited in the tube. The three forms in which carbon is known are— carbon, graphite, and diamond, which, in chemical composition, aro Exactly alike, though so different in their mechanical aggregation ; and each of them when burned yields carbonic acid. The combustion of diamond was effected with great brilliancy in a jar of oxygen gas, after the gem had been ignited by a voltaic battery,and the product of the combus tion was shown to be carbonic acid by its rendering baryta water turbid, in the same manner as gaseous product of the combustion of carbon and graphite. The principal part of yesterday's lecture was occupied with the exemplification of the properties of oxygen and hydrogen gases, which are the con• stituents of water, eight-ninths of the weight of water consisting of oxygen. Though oxygen gas is the principal supporter of combustion, it does not itself burn. It constitutes about one-fifth of the bulk of atmospheric air, and, when in an unadul terated form, combustible bodies burn in it with great energy. The constitution of water was shown first by burning a piece of sodium in water, by which process the oxygen of the water was ab stracted to support the combustion, and the hydro gen was left in the vessel, and in the second place by the decomposition of water by voltaic electri city, the products of the decomposition being col lected in two separate tubes, in one of which the oxygen was collected, and is the other the hydro gen, which occupied double the space. The oppo site properties of the two gaseous products were shown by the burning of hydrogen and the bril liant ignition of a taper in oxygen. Hydrogen gas, though very inflammable, extinguishes flame ; as was shown by setting fire to hydrogen contained in an inverted glass. It inflamed round the edge of the vessel, where it was in contact with the atmo sphere, but it extinguished a lighted taper. Thus, as Dr Frankland observed, water and carbonic acid, from which coal is formed, extinguish flame, and when those compound substances aro resolved into their elements, one element is highly inflammable, and the other, though not inflammable, is the prin. , cipel supporiet of till embuslion. Having shown The Changes in the Present Parliament. The existing Parliament was begun and holden on the 31st of May, 1859, and has therefore been in existence five years and seven months. During this brief period a change has passed over the per. sonnel of nearly one-fourth of the House of Com mons, for no less than 154 of its members have been removed by death, resignation, promotion, and other causes. The prospect of a general election at no distant period may render of some interest the an nexed history of the losses sustained by the present Parliament from the time of its assembling to the close of 1864 : • - ENGLAND ;AND WALES. Andover—la July, 1861, Mr W. Cubitt, then Lord Mayor of London, resigned his seat for this borough to contest the City with Mr Western Wood, and was succeeded by Mr H. B. Coles—in December, 1862, on the death of Mr Coles, Mr Cubitt was re-elected—in November, 1863, on the death of Mr Cubitt, Mr W. H. Humphery Barnstaple—Mr Potts died, October, 1863—Mr T. Lloyd unseated in April, 1861, and the seat taken by Mr R. Bremridgo Berkshire—Captain Leicester Vernon died, April, 1860— Mr R. Benyon Berwick—Mr R. A. Earle resigned, August, 1859—Mr D. C. Marjoribanks—Captain Gordon died, June, 1863 Mr W. Cargill _ , Beverley—Mr R, W alter tthseated August, 1859—Mr J. R. W alker Birkenhead—Allotted a member in December, 1861—Mr John Laird Bodwin—Dr Michell resigned, August, 1859—Mr J. WI Id. Bolton—Mr Crook resigned, February, 1861=-Mr T. Barnes Boston—Mr Herbert Ingram died, September, 1860—Mr J. W. Malcolm Bradford—Mr Titus Salt resigned, February, 1861—Mr W. E. Foster Brighton—Sir G. Pechell, died, July, 1860 Mr J. White; Mr Coningham resigned, February, 1864—Mr H Moor Bucks—The Hon. W. G. Cavendish became Lord Chea. ham, Deo., 1863—Mr it. Batoson Harvey Cambridge (Boroigb)—Mr Steuart resigned, February, 1863—Mr F. S. Powell Canibtidgekhirc—Mr BAH resigned, Feb., 1863—Lord G. Manlierg Canterbury—Mr Butler-Johnstone resigned, FLb., 1862 —Mr IL. A. Butler-Johnstone Carlislo—Sir James Graham died, Nov., 1861—Mr E. Potter Carmartlion—Mr D. Morris dio 4 , Nov., 1861—Mr W. Morris Chiehcster—Mr Freeland resigned, Fteb., 1863--Mr J. Abel Smith Covcn , ry—Right Hon. E, Ellice died, October, 1.863 Mr Treherne Cumberland ( West) General Sir H. Wyndham died, August, 1860—Hon. Percy S. Wyndham Dartmouth—Mr Sehenley was unseated, August, 1859 Mr Dunn ; on the death of Mr Dunn, October, 1860—Mr J. Hardy Devizes—Captain Gladstone died, Feb., 1863 Hon. W. W. Addington ; on Mr Addington becoming Lord Sid • mouth, April, 1864—Sir R, Bateson Devonport—Sir Erskine Perry was appointed a member of the Indian Council, August, 1859—Sir M. Seymour ; Right Hon. James Wilson was appointed Indian Finance Minister, August, 1859—Sir A. W. Buller ; Sir M. Sey mour was appointed commander in chief at Portsmouth, Feb., 1863—Mr Ferrand Dorsetshire—Air Ker Seymer resigned, Feb., 1861—Mr J. Floyer Durham (city)—Sir W. Atherton died, JAn., 1864 —Mr Ht rider son Durham (North) —Lord A• V. Tempest died, June, 1864 —Sir H. Williamson _ _ _ Exeter—Mr Divett died, July, 1864—Lord Courtenay Finsbury—Mr Dancombe died, Dec., 1861—Mr Cox Flintshire—Mr Lloyd..Mostyn died, May, 1861—Lord R. Grosvenor Gloucester (city)—Messrs Price and Monk were un.. seated, August, 1859, but no new writ was issued until February, 1862—lion C. P. Berkeley, and Mr J. J. Powell Gloucestershire (East)—Sir C. W. Codrington died, July, 1861—Sir M. 11. Beach Great Grimsby—Lord Worsley became Earl of Yar. borough, February, 1862—Mr J. Chapman Harwich—Hon W. F. Campbell became Lord Stratheden March, 1860—Hon R. T. Rowley Hastings—Lord H. Vane became Duke of Cleveland, October, 1864—Mr Waldegrave, Leslie Herts—Mr Giles-Puller died, Marob, 1864—Mr Surtees Honiton.—Mr Locke died, October, 1860 --Mr Moffat Hull—Mr Hoare was unseated, Aug., 1859—Mr Somes Kent (East) —Mr Deedes died, January, 1863—Sir E. C Bering Kidderminster —Mr Bristow resigned, May, 1862—Hon Luke White. Lambeth—Mr Roupell resigned April, 1862—MrDoulton Lancashire (Soutb)—Third seat granted, August, 1861— Mr C. Turner Lancaster—Mr Garrott resigned, April, 1864—Mr E, M. Fenwick. Leicester—Dr Noble died, Jan., 1861—Mr Heygate—Mr Biggs resigned, Feb., 1862—Mr P. A. Taylor LCWOB-Right Hon Henry Fitzroy died, December, 1859 —Mr Blencowe Lincoln —Major Sibthorp died, Oct., 1861—Mr Seely; Mr Heneage resigned, in order to contest Great Grimsby, Feb., 1862—Mr Bromley-Moore. Liskeard—Mr R. W. Grey was appointed a commissioner of customs, Aug., 1859 —Mr Bernal Osborne . _ London (city)—Lord John Russell was created a peer, July, 1861—Mr Western 'Wood; Mr Wood diod, May, 1863 —Mr G. J. Goschen _ Ludlow—Colonel Herbert resigned, Sept., 1860—Hon P. H. Windsor-Clive; Mr Betiah Botfield died, August 1863—Sir W. A. Fraser Lymington—Sir J. R. Carnac resigned, May, 1860—Lord G. Gordon-Lennox Marylebone—Sir B. Hall was created Lord Llanover, July, 1859—Lord Fermoy ; Mr Edwin James resigned, April, 1861—Mr Harvey Lewis Monmouthshire—Colonel E. Somerset resigned, June, 1859—Mr Poulett G. Somerset Montgomery (district) —Mr Pugh died, April, 1861— Captain S. Willes-Johnson ; on the death of Captain John son, July, 1863—Hon. C. Harbury- Tracy Montgomeryshire—Colonel Herbert Wynn died, June, 1862—Mr C. W. Wynn Newcastle—Mr Ridley was appointed a Copyhold En closure Commissioner, November, 1860—Mr S. A. Beau- mont Northampton—Right Hon. Vernon Smith was created Lord Lyveden, July, 1859—Lord Hecl , T Norwich—Lord Bury and Mr Schneider were unseated, July 1859, but no new writ was issued until March, 1860— Mr E. Warner and Sir W. Russell Nottingham (borough)—Mr Mellor was appointed a judge in the Court of Queen's Bench, December, 1861—Sir R. J. Clifton Notts (South) —Lord Newark became Earl Manvers, November, 1360—Lord Stanhope Oldham—Mr W. J. Fox resigned, May 1862—Mr J. T. Hibbcrt Oxford (city)—Mr Langston died, October 1863—Mr Neate Oxfordshire—Mr Vernon Harcourt died, February 1862 —Colonel Fano SCOTLAND. Aberdeenshire—Lord Haddo became Earl of Aberdeen December, 1860—Mr Leslie Ayrshire—Lord Crichton Stuart died, October, 1859 Sir J, Fergusson Banffshire—Major Duff resigned, April, 1861—Mr R. W. Duff Fifeshire—Mr Erskine Wemyss died, April, 1864 —Sir R. Anstruther Forfarstire—Lord Duncan became Earl of Camperdown, Jan., 1860—Hon C. Carnegie Kirkcaldy...Colonel Ferguson resigned, July, 1862—Mr R. S. Aytoun Selkirkshire—Mr Lockhart resigned, Aug., 1861—Lord Henry Scott Sutherlandshire—The Marquis of Stafford became Duke of Sutherland, March, 1861—Sir D. Dundas Wick —Mr Laing was appointed Indian Finance Minister, Oct., 1860—Viscount Bury In confining ourselves to the changes which have taken place in the House of Commons, we have not noticed the re-elections consequent on the formation of Lord Palmer aton's Government in June, 1859. In the majority of cases the new Ministers were returned without opposition, and in the few instances where the seats were contested the members of the Administration were successful. Thus, at Bedford, Mr Whitbread, as Lord of the Admiralty, was victorious over Captain Pelhill Turner—at Hertford, Mr Cowper, as Vice-President of the Board of Trade, van quished Mr Dimsdale—at Newcastle, Mr Headlam, as Judge-Advocate-General, beat Mr Cuthbert—at the Unia varsity of Oxford, Mr Gladstone, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, was an easy winner over the Marquis of Chandos—at Sandwich, Mr Knatchbull-Hugessen, as a Lord of the Treasury,was successful over Sir James Fergus son—and in Cork county Mr Sergeant Deasy, as Attorney. , General for Ireland, won a victory over Viscount Campden. The only instance in which a member of the Government has appealed to his constituents and lost his seat was in the case of Colonel White at Longford, An analysis of the changes will show that of the 169 members returned by the 52 counties of England and Wales, 26 have been elected since May, 1859, representing 6,199,329 of the population, and 160,829 electors. Of the 338 sent by the 240 cities and boroughs, 96 are new members representing 76 constituencies, 3,634,277 inhabitants, and 248,334 electors. Total changes in England and Wales, 102 constituencies, 122 members, representing in the aggregate 9,853,606 of the population, and 379,163 electors. Among the 64 members returned by the 32 counties of Ireland, there have been 11 changes in nine constituencies, whose population at the last census was 1,937,594, and whose united - electoral roll contains 56,052 names. Ireland's 33 cities and boroughs return 39 members, and in 11 of these constituencies there have been 12 changes, the population amounting to 259,402, with 9,154 electors. Total changes in Ireland, 20 constituencies, 23 members, representing 2,196,986 persons, with 65,196 electors. Scotland has 30 members allotted to its 33 counties, and in these there have been seven changes, the population amounting to 874,645, while the electors number 20,783. Distributed amongst the 76 cities and burghs of the sister kingdom are 53 mem bers—only two have been :changed, the population of the districts amounting to 40,471, with 1,637 electors• Total changes in Scotland, nine members, representing 915,116 persons, with 22,320 electors. It will be seen that, adding the boroughs to the COunties 4 since the general election, 131 P . RICF ..4d STAMPED ....5d constituencies in the United Kingdom have sent 154 now members to Parliament, representing a united population of 12,265,718, with 466,679 electors. But, dividing the boroughs from the counties, the changes in the three kingdoms give these results :—ln the counties—consti tuencies, 42—members, 41—population, 9,oll,s6B—elec tors, 237,654. In the cities and borouzhs—constituencies, 89— members,110—population, 3,953,150—e1eeter5,229,925. For the vacancies which have arisen in England and Wales there have been 72 contests-63 in the boroughs and 9in tho counties—in Ireland, 7-5 in the boroughs and 2in the counties—in Scotland 3, in the counties only. Thus altogether there have been 68 contests in the bo. roughs of the United Kingdom, and 14 in the counties ; total, 82. 49 constituencies have therefore been uncon tested in returning their now members. Of the changes which have taken place there were 16 in 1859, 33 in 1860, 28 in 18C1, 25 in 1662, 34 in 1863, and 18 in the year now closing, Of the causes which have led to these 151 vacan. cies, 61 members have died, 51 have resigned consequent on iii health, old age, or promotion to appointments involv. ing the loss of their seats; 26 have become peers, either by succession or by creation ; 11 have been unseated, and two new seats have been made. Liberals were succeeded by Liberals in 55 of the consti tuencies—eight counties and 47 boroughs. Conservatives were succeeded by Conservatives in 41 places-22 counties and 19 boroughs. In 22 constituencies Liberals have been replaced by Conservatives-8 counties and 14 boroughs, while Conservatives have been returned for the two seats which have been Greeted, Birkenhead and South Lanca shire. - This would make a total Opposition gain of 24 seats in the following order :—Aberdeenshire, Ayrshire, Bever ley, Birkenhead, Boston, Brighton, Bucks, Cork (county), Coventry, Devonport, Exeter, Great Grimeby, Harwich, Herts, South Lancashire, Leicester, Londonderry, Oxfor,l shire, Southampton, Taunton, Tynemoutt., Wakefield, South Wilts, and the North Riding of Yorkshire. On the other hand, Conservatives have been replaced by Liberals in nine constituencies—three counties and six boroughs. namely, Belfast, Berwick, Bodmin, North Durham, East Kent, Montgomery, Plymouth, Roscommon, and Whitby. The net gain to the Conservatives since the assembling of the present Parliament is therefore 15 seats. At Lincoln the gain to the Liberals through the substitution of Mr Seely for Major Sihthoip was subsequently counterba lanced by the victory of Mr Chapman over Mr Heneage. In like wanner at Pontefract the Liberal gain through the election of Mr Childers in the room of Mr Overend was afterwards nullified by the succession of Major Waterhouse to the seat which Mr Monckton Milnes had hold fora quar ter of a century.— Western Morning News, Dec. 29. The War in America (From the index.) The last mail from America bore, on the face of the telegram, about the heaviest news that has been received from the Confederacy this year, Happily we are in a position to assert with tolerable CODfis deuce that one half is false and the other half so highly coloured as to deprive it of the painful importance at first attached to it. The two great features of the news are the alleged capture of Savannah and the reported defeat of Hood. It is strange that they should have so easily deceived the English public. We will take the Savannah canard first. It originated with a paper published at Baltimore, on the strength of a report furnished by a nameless individual at Fortress Monroe, from a transport which left Charleston Bar on the 14th inst. This can hardly be considered very satisfactory evidence, even if un eantradicted. But the Richmond papers publish news up to a later date than any intelligence that could have been received at Charleston Bar on the .14tb, and in their columns not a word is said as to "the capture of Savannah, or even its attack. What facts the Richmond papers do give decidedly nega tive the assault and capture, for they report the stormieg and capture of Fort M'Allister, 16 miles to the south-west of Savannah, on the Ogeechee River, on the 14. h inst. ; and it is absurd to suppose that Sherman would have marched with his v. hole army 15 miles away from Savannah for the capture of a solitary fort, and march 15 miles back and then capture SaCannah after eight hours' fighting, in thi course of 24 houre. Savannah is a strongly fortified town, standing on a very easily defensible site. Its communications with Charleston, and therefore with Virginia, are intact. Its garrison is said to consist of a force numerically equal to Sherman's. To suppose that he would attack such a town with his jAded troops is to suppose him mad ; and to believe that in eight hours, without siege artillery, he had compelled General Hardee with 10,000 men to sur render; is to display an amount of belief hardly to be expected, even in this age of eager credulity. AU that is certain is that Sherman has reached the sea, and opened communication with Dahlgren's fleet; that he has obtained a point of egress; and that what is left of his army is safe. Safety and not conquest was his first object. The former he has in all probability attained by the capture of Fort M'Allister; the latter, we venture to assert, he will not be in a position to achieve for some time to come. The news from Nashville does not rest on an debatable a basis, but it is evidently exaggerated. According to the Federal accounts, General Thomas on the 15th made an attack upon the Confederate lino, had captured vast quantities of materiel, 16 guns, 1,000 prisoners, and driven back the left wing of Hood's army some eight miles with the loss of 500 men. The weight of the attack appears to have been directed against that portion of the army which blockaded the Cumberland River west of Nashville ; and here, no doubt, the Federal gunboats obtained a success for Gen. Thomas's army. But it must be observed that no mention is made of a general attack, so that there is no reason to believe that the position of the centre and right of Hood's army was in any way endangered. The whole affair seems to have been rather a successful sortie than a great battle, and it is evident that if another en gagement took place on the subsequent day it would come off under very different conditions. The Fedes rale would lose the aid of their gunboats, and they would have to assault and carry earthworks defended by veteran soldiers. Moreover, a few hours would suffice to recall Forrest with his cavalry and give the Confederates a vast superiority in that arm. Gen. Thomas has not often had occasion to make inde ' pendent reports to his Government. But we have invariably noticed that when he does write a deN spatch it is highly inventive, and we quite expect that the arrival of the Cunard steamer will show a very different version of the matter. It cannot be denied, however, that Hood's position was a weak one. He must have occupied a line some seven miles in extent. He had despatched one division and an his cavalry to Murfreesborough, another division had gone northward into Kentucky. The force with which he had partially invested Nashville could not have much exceeded the command of Gen. Thomas, and we question the prudence of holding such an extended line with his greatly reduced strength. Of the sub sequent battle of the 16th we cannot speak with certainty. According to unofficial reports, Thomas had gained a great victory, bad driven Hood from all his intrenched positions, captured 3,000 prisoners and 30 cannon, in fact, routed the Confederate army. The story is improbable, to say the least of it, but Hood's intrenched positions have been taken,it must have cost the Federals too dearly to admit of a very active pursuit of Hood's army, and Forrest's supe riority in cavalry will prevent any disaster. A battle will have been lost, and Nashville will have been saved ; but Northern Georgia and Northern Alabama will not the less have been rescued fron the invader. As to General Canby's flourish of trumpets about the severance of Hood's commu nications with Mobile, it is simply absurd. Hem, drew neither men nor material from Mobile ane more than he did from Richmond, and Genera Warren might with almost as much reason have boasted of cutting his communications with Peters. burg. But Cauby's despatch is a fair specimen 0! Yankee brag. We are not without hope that Thomas's victory of the 16th will turn cut, Schofield's triumph et Franklin, a very doubtfu “ffair. The public has so often heard of Con federate armies "routed and demoralised," whi c h a week afterwards have struck a vigorous and succcessful blow at the enemy, that it will be slow to believe in the pleasing prospect held up by a Federal organ in this country of General Thomas reoccupying Southern territory as far south as "the Etowah river." 7-- A,, ~~;'~} . Naval and Military Iptelligenee., Yasterd a y th e operat i ons of fixitit theiiiil .' . moor-plates to the sides of the trope ad frigate ^rigate Bellerophon, 14, 2,246 tons, 1,000 horse power *as commenced in the second dock at Chat• ham, in which that vessel is under construction, and the work of bolting the thousand tons and up wards of armour to the Exterior of the frigate will be proceeded with as rapidly as the resources of the dockyard will permit. The plate fixed to the midship starboard sides yesterday was one of those supplied by the Millwall Iron Company, to which firm hes been confided the task of preparing the armour-plates required for the vessel. It is one of the best rolled iron, and weighs nearly seven tone, its dimensions being loft. in length by four feat in breadth, and 6in. in thickness, the uniforrn thick. !less of the nrinour-platcs carried by the Beller°. phon along both sides of her midships battery. The Warrior, Achilles, and, Bieck Prince will be prc. vided with_ plates of 4 . n. only. In addition, how. ever, to the extra thickness of armour...plating given to the Bellerophon, her inner or skin pleves are I tin. in thickness, which is De arty an inch in emcus of the inside plates of the Achilles, the lattek frigate having her inner plates worked to 9 ICiths of en inch only in thickness. Between the outer and inner plates of the Bellerophon, however, - the timber backing has been very materally reduced, the planking to which the armour plates are at. taohed being only 10in. in thickness, the additional couple of, inches in the thickness of iron- which cover her sides being considered more than an equi valent for the reduction effected in the wooden backing. ,In the Bellerophon it will thus be seen that shot and shell will have to penetrate 7:in of solid • iron -and-- the teak backing, while in the Minotaur -the thickness of armour plating and inner : plates is but six inches, and in the -Warrior only five. • The . bolts' 'for' seraring — flio' plates to the sides of the frigate are prepared at Chatham dockyard, where arrangements have also been completed for galvanising them, without in< curring the delay t xperienc2d in the construction cf the Achilles by sending the bolts from the dociyard to London to be galvanised by a private firm, and afterwards received back at the dockyard. Espeo rience would seem to prove, however, that little real advantage is obtained from the use of galvanised bolts, end it is therefore at present intended to dias pense with that process in the case of the Bellero- Ilion by the use of the ordinary bolts of 24in. in ..•. thickness. Six steam cranes arc constantly em ployed alongside the Bellerophon dock in lifting the iron required for that vessel, and two more, of con siderably larger dimensions, are now being erected alongside by Messrs Taylor and Co., of the Bri tannia Works, Birkenhead, for hoisting_the armour plates to their place. In the construction of the iron frigate the utmost energy is being shown, and as an instance of the rapidity with which she is being built, it may ho stated that the first piece of iron for her keel was lowered into the dock on the Bth of April last, and she is now sufficiently advanced to receive her armour plates. -From her present rate of progress she will be completed and :Abet before the close of the approaching year,' the Bellerophon in this respect presenting a remarkable contrast to the Achilles, which was constructed in the same dock. The iron frigate Achilles, Captain E. Vansittart, remained at Spithead yesterday, awaiting orders from the- Admiralty, who it is anticipated will direct ber to proceed to Davenport to be docked and replace her damaged propeller with a perfect one. The diver who has been sent down to examine the ship reports two out of the four blades of the :..crew to be broken off from the boss, but no other damage is visible. The suddenly accelerated spud of the Achilles' engines on the loss of these two out of her four screw blades, to which wP re ferred in The Sun of yesterday, when not', _ accident, is just one of those circurustanceat is always attended with the greatest possib' ° ~anger to the engines where no certain mecha7 I self acting control is applied for the admission of steam to them according to the actual amount of work being done bythe prpp4lt,r, No accident did occur to thu entities of the Ac . Nilltza on Wedirt-a:lay - ty heir suddenly increased number of revolutions, eon itquont upon the loss of her propeller blades; but the face remains that serious danger for some mo ments did exist from the " racing" of the engines, Ind serious danat , gr) to the machinery was in all drubability only averted by the prompt measures ttken by the offivrs in charge of the engine-room. 'here arc two sets of conditions under which all item ships are liable to damage seriously their ma. tihinery when under full steaming power by the sud 4 len " racing" of their engines. One is when a ship, like the Achilles, suddenly throws off a portion of driving surface of her propeller; the other is when a ship umler steam, in a heavy or following iea, lifts her stern, and with her stern her screw also, occasionally out of the water. In such cases the engines " race," to use the technical phraee, by the loss of resistance on the driving faces of the screw. blades, and the danger to the ship's engines is ale ways imminent under such circumstances, and car: only be averied as was done, happily in the Achilles by a prompt attention to the throttleevalve, or the accident really occurs as it did to the Himalaya by the racing of the engines, as the ship, running at tremendous speed on her return to England from her lifted her stern to the seas and lwaistthfoitrepigron voyage,pellerclear of the water. We have ex plained how the Achilles escaped accident to her ma. chinery, but the Himalaya cracked her shaft through, and will lie a useless ship for at least three month in Portsmouth harbour before she can again be made! ready for sea. In the mercantile steam navy this danger to engines is very effectually met by the application of a "governor," which regulates the admission of steam to the cylinders, in accords ante with the actual work done by the propeller. The " Silver governor" is generally admitted to be the best contrivance of the kind, and it is already fitted on board upwaids of 300 vessels in the mere oantile navy. The apparatus is extremely simple and effective. So long as the engines run at a unie form rate of speed the governor gives the) steam free admission to the engines ; but the slightest deviation from this uniformity of motion closes the throttle. valve and stops the supply of steam until the engines resume their even motion. In our report of . the first trial of the Achilles at Portsmouth, which appeared in the Sun of the 15th inst., the ship's propeller was described as being " a fourbbladed Mangin.'' This is now explained to have been an error. The screw of the Achilles has its four blades set round the boss at equi.distant intervals, singly, but Nos. 1 and 3 blades slightly in advance of Nos. 2 and 4. The ordinary Mangin screw has its four blades set on the propeller boss in pairs, . The following appointments were made yesterday at the Admiralty :—Lieut. Thomas Ramsbotham to the Royal Adelaide—R, D. Clemente, midshipman, to the Hector—Geo, B. Long, naval cadet, to the Achilles —Henry D. Philips, nominated to a naval cadetship—Geo. H. Ryan, surgeon, to the Shannon —and he, C. Meagher, paymaster, to the Meander. Foreign Mail Packet List. MAILS DUE. Australia and Mauritius, via Southe.mpton. . . Jun 18, via Marseilles.... .. Jan. 12. Brazil and Cape Verde, by British pa c k et . Cape of Good Hope, Ascension, and St . Helena..D jil e n c. 5 29. Obina, Penang, and Singapore, via Southampton. Jan. 2. via Marseilles ...Dec. 27. Falkland Islands . ....... • . $ Wbraltar, via Southampt k ,- 1 .. India (Calcutta), Ind `o IG,I, via Southampton Jan. 2. via ~c' eutliaini‘ 4 . io a n i N. l .......... I . ll°B** l)l)cec e: 27 . 27* India (Baubay), via Mars;.:i lles Dec. —. ?ortugal.... ...... \lalt, Egypt., and Aden, via . th 9ou._anipt.oli D , .c ` , 7. —.via Marseille:. Dec. —. .!..Tewfuundland Oporto and Vigo .. .......... U. S. and British N. America, by Brit.. packct.... Du..: 2,?. by D.S. razket.... Lv Canadian packet. Doc. '..;0 . W.C. of Africa, Madeira, and Tcneriffe Tan. Yi. Are rhmsatmuDec. 29. Jan. 12. da (ditto) C u ba and Mexico Dec. 29 . 11Be,t ln as di ( e v s ia an N d ew yo Pacific r k) The only other steamer to arrive from New York this week is the Glasgow, which sailed on the same day as ;he Hansa. No later news is likely to be received before Monday, the next Cunard steamer being the Canada from Boston, which was to sail on the 21. et. 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